See licence on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:",
"text": "Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]",
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"english": "The National Assembly, considering that liberty strengthens the empires, but licence destroys them,... has decreed the present martial law:",
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"english": "Let everyone recalls himself of the moment when I was away from Paris: the Constitution was about to be completed; and yet the authority of the laws seem to weaken every day;... the licence of the writings was at its peak; no power was respected.",
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"text": "Que chacun se rappelle le moment où je me suis éloigné de Paris: la Constitution étoit près de s’achever; et cependant l’autorité des loix sembloit s’affoiblir chaque jour;... la licence des écrits étoit au comble; aucun pouvoir n’étoit respecté.",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "licence to print money"
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{
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"ref": "2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:",
"text": "Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]",
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"english": "The National Assembly, considering that liberty strengthens the empires, but licence destroys them,... has decreed the present martial law:",
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"english": "Let everyone recalls himself of the moment when I was away from Paris: the Constitution was about to be completed; and yet the authority of the laws seem to weaken every day;... the licence of the writings was at its peak; no power was respected.",
"ref": "1791, Louis XVI, “Message du roi à l'Assemblée nationale, le 13 septembre 1791 [Message of the King to the National Assembly, 13 September 1791]”, in Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French Constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly, 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 80:",
"text": "Que chacun se rappelle le moment où je me suis éloigné de Paris: la Constitution étoit près de s’achever; et cependant l’autorité des loix sembloit s’affoiblir chaque jour;... la licence des écrits étoit au comble; aucun pouvoir n’étoit respecté.",
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"form": "licencéről",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"delative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"delative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "licencétől",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "licencéé",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative"
]
},
{
"form": "licencééi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative",
"singular"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "hu",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "licence",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"li‧cen‧ce"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "licencé",
"2": "e",
"esm_sg": "1",
"n": "sg"
},
"name": "hu-infl-nom"
}
],
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hungarian entries with incorrect language header",
"Hungarian non-lemma forms",
"Hungarian noun forms",
"Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"third-person singular single-possession possessive of licenc"
],
"links": [
[
"licenc",
"licenc#Hungarian"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈlit͡sɛnt͡sɛ]"
}
],
"word": "licence"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "licence"
},
"expansion": "French: licence",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: licence"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "licence",
"3": "license",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: licence, license",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: licence, license"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "licentia"
},
"expansion": "Latin licentia",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin licentia.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "licence oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "licences",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "licence",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "licences",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "licence oblique singular, f (oblique plural licences, nominative singular licence, nominative plural licences)",
"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns",
"Old French terms borrowed from Latin",
"Old French terms derived from Latin",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"leave; permission to be away, to be not present"
],
"links": [
[
"leave",
"leave"
]
]
}
],
"word": "licence"
}
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"subsection": "noun",
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